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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)